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deanpinterester · 5 months ago

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rebel is flagsmashing 101 if i've ever seen one "what if the guy who wants to change the oppressive status quo....... actually secretly wanted to be an evil dictator!" we've seen this story a billion times

#uhhhh me #i think this is the only book in the legend series (and the author's entire catalogue) that i actively hated #it feels like a marvel disney+ show and not one of the good ones #first renegades and now this...i'm sick of it! i'm sick of flagsmashing plotlines!!#making my own AU. eden was under the impression that hann was building a bomb to destroy the sky cities #when he returns and he and pressa and day try to stop him they realize the device actually kills the level system #and they're like oop....maybe that's a good thing actually #and then they let hann do it and watch him escape and when the AIS gets there eden is like oooops he got away :'(#and now you're thinking 'but this causes riots in the streets does it not?' FALSE it actually kindles a mutual helping in the undercity #the kind you see in the aftermath of a natural disaster #they help each other once they realize they can't be penalized for doing so #these are people who have survived years and decades with cracked versions of the system or have no use for the system at all #is this a little too hunky dory and unrealistic to what might happen in real life? maybe. but i don't care #i'd take anything over the heroes reinstating the oppressive level system (even with the hacks they made)-#-and just banking on the fact the government won't try to unhack it #i don't even think eden fixes one of the major issues he had with the system which is that ppl can literally get away-#-with bad behaviour (like the bullying he endured) if they're creative about it and it's you who gets deducted if you fight back #that's just a small example of what i assume more rich and privileged ppl in the story are getting away with #the problem isn't the rules of the level system or that people can't protest and march without being penalized #the problem is with the entire level system in and of itself #and i'm gobsmacked the book doesn't have an awareness of that #anyway i'm done the book now. time to return it to the library

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